Doing it Wrong to Get it Right
Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don’t like – then cultivate it. That’s the only part of your work that’s individual and worth keeping. ~Jean Cocteau Jean Cocteau was such a multifaceted artist...
Artist Elissa Tracy: Her new Selfies Series Watches Us Watch Ourselves
Elissa Tracy is a unique, bold, pop culture artist with a signature style. Think Warhol meets Dali. She has mastered the art of thick acrylic paints and deep, potent colors giving vibrant flair to the familiar and an allure to the abstract, creating her own twist of...
How PR Can (Quite Literally) Inform and Transform Art
I was speaking to a writer the other day about how she hates to have to market her work. It’s not a new complaint. I’ve heard it from writers, painters, musicians and film makers for years now. I’ve echoed the same complaint myself. It’s a perennial artist’s complaint..
